The offending material posted to Facebook, also provided to the Globe by Walker, read: ''Either we get a petition going [we need at least 500 signatures] or we try and set him up. He's got to do something wrong, in either case, he's gotta foul up at some point . . . anyone willing to get arrested?"
A day later, on Sept. 21, Walker posted a message saying the officer ''loves to antagonize students . . . and needs to be eliminated."
It's pretty clear that he was not threatening to kill this guy. 'eliminate' is not a synonym for 'execute'.
However, he was a complete idiot to threaten to 'set up' a police officer. Forget free speech, he's lucky if he doesn't get prosecuted for that. I'm sure that would be a serious crime, at least here in the UK. Good luck to him crying 'constitutional rights' to the cops after he 'conspired' to 'set up' one of their colleagues.
The kid must be pretty shortsighted to think noone but his classmates was going to see this (or that they would, but it was perfectly acceptable free speech).
costs must continually be reduced (implying that they would reach $0 at some point).
this is false. it might take until time = infinity for costs to reach zero. furthermore, costs could be continually reduced without ever having to reach zero. they could converge to a nonzero value. ie each year they could halve the amount they spent over some fixed amount. then costs would never get below that minimum.
however since costs must be nonnegative, if they are continually reduced they must converge.
but you still have to check your inbox. there's going to be something important in there (otherwise, why have a phone number?) and deleting everything else is going to be much slower than with email.
Hotmail is a really good example -- they bought hotmail and for quite some time never really knew what they wanted to do with it. In the end, I don't think it gave them much of anything.
in fact, they bought it when almost every single person who used webmail, used hotmail. then they annoyed all these people so much with various forms of fascistic behaviour, that most of them went elsewhere, in particular to yahoo! mail.
for example "we won't block spam properly unless you pay us thirty dollars a year".
One sneaky thing those bastards have done is that, if you type, say "apple" into the ie address bar, instead of guessing that you want "www.apple.com", like it used to a few years ago, it uses msn search to search for "apple".
it is not obvious to me how you can change ie's settings to use another search engine, but surely it can't be possible for microsoft to lock their browser onto their own search, not with all those judges scrutinising them for signs of antitrust behaviour?
in any case, it's a good way of getting msn search a lot of mindshare, when otherwise lots of people who mainly use google might never bother to look for an alternative.
what's the point of replying to this poor guys story by saying that, given expertise, he cld fix memorry leaks and instabilities in house? he clearly can't do this, nor does he want to. that's why he paid someone else to supply him with an o/s.
we could, all, write our own operating systems from scratch but who does?
>>Or you can just double click a tab to close it. That's a big seller for me. I hate having to right click just to close a tab.
>I must say I prefer Firefox's middle-click open and close for tabs. It seems unlikely, but I do occasionally double-click when I meant to click twice.
It's not until anyone can easily configure trivial stuff like this themselves to get any interface just the way they're used to it that people will be able to make genuinely reasoned choices about which browser made by who they want to run.
All this result says is that an average IQ score of women is lower then an average IQ score of men.
It simply means that there are more intelligent men than intelligent women
It means nothing of the kind. The average IQ score of men, and the proportion of 'intelligent men' are statistically completely different things, even if you define intelligence purely in terms of IQ. If you are at all numerate, 10 seconds thought should suffice to convince you of this. For instance, there could be a small minority of men who have very high IQs, around 150, and the rest could all be around 90. Most women could have IQs around 120. Then if you define 'intelligent' as IQ>110, there might be many more intelligent women than intelligent men, even though men have a higher average IQ.
(Incidentally, this example isn't too far from a massive exaggeration of what I think is actually the case)
As usual, when such tests appear, someone without even basic knowledge of statistics tries to read into them something which isn't there in the first place
If the domain name doesn't have any more value to you than it does as a contentless site, visited only by people who mistype addresses, guess at addresses, (ie just type www.computers.com looking for somewh to buy a computer) or follow links to spam sites from easily-fooled search engines, and then click on ad links like monkeys, why should you buy it anyway?
"We have recieved a request to transfer $x to account number Y in Nigeria. If you did not request this please click here to connect to our fraud prevention dept., and confirm your account details and passwords..."
I don't see why Apple would leak the software on purpose like some claim
Some (most?) people don't use pirated software, and so you still get their money, whereas if you gave it away, no-one would pay.
And a lot of people who use warez wouldn't pay for software anyway.
Instead of them stealing somebody else's, they steal yours, and you increase the visibility of your product.
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It's pretty clear that he was not threatening to kill this guy. 'eliminate' is not a synonym for 'execute'.
However, he was a complete idiot to threaten to 'set up' a police officer. Forget free speech, he's lucky if he doesn't get prosecuted for that. I'm sure that would be a serious crime, at least here in the UK. Good luck to him crying 'constitutional rights' to the cops after he 'conspired' to 'set up' one of their colleagues.
The kid must be pretty shortsighted to think noone but his classmates was going to see this (or that they would, but it was perfectly acceptable free speech).
Right, but imagine if we had written and pictoral evidence of Bush doing all of those things, evidence even the most diehard Bush fan couldn't ignore.
it would be claimed that the accusations were 'politically motivated'.
You must be new here.
this is false. it might take until time = infinity for costs to reach zero. furthermore, costs could be continually reduced without ever having to reach zero. they could converge to a nonzero value. ie each year they could halve the amount they spent over some fixed amount. then costs would never get below that minimum.
however since costs must be nonnegative, if they are continually reduced they must converge.
Is that your point?
but was it free as in freedom?
but you still have to check your inbox. there's going to be something important in there (otherwise, why have a phone number?) and deleting everything else is going to be much slower than with email.
for example "we won't block spam properly unless you pay us thirty dollars a year".
Do you turn it off at night?
One sneaky thing those bastards have done is that, if you type, say "apple" into the ie address bar, instead of guessing that you want "www.apple.com", like it used to a few years ago, it uses msn search to search for "apple".
it is not obvious to me how you can change ie's settings to use another search engine, but surely it can't be possible for microsoft to lock their browser onto their own search, not with all those judges scrutinising them for signs of antitrust behaviour?
in any case, it's a good way of getting msn search a lot of mindshare, when otherwise lots of people who mainly use google might never bother to look for an alternative.
>It isn't uncommon for donated computers to have a pathetic amount of RAM installed or even for them to show up stripped
Find out what the people stripping the RAM out of old boxes are doing with it, and do that.
Or, just stop keeping hold of it yourself if it isn't worth anything to you.
what's the point of replying to this poor guys story by saying that, given expertise, he cld fix memorry leaks and instabilities in house? he clearly can't do this, nor does he want to. that's why he paid someone else to supply him with an o/s.
we could, all, write our own operating systems from scratch but who does?
The slashdot blurb wants to you to think that gates is disagreeing with the do no evil slogan.
No, I think it's called 'humour'.
>>Or you can just double click a tab to close it. That's a big seller for me. I hate having to right click just to close a tab.
>I must say I prefer Firefox's middle-click open and close for tabs. It seems unlikely, but I do occasionally double-click when I meant to click twice.
It's not until anyone can easily configure trivial stuff like this themselves to get any interface just the way they're used to it that people will be able to make genuinely reasoned choices about which browser made by who they want to run.
It simply means that there are more intelligent men than intelligent women
It means nothing of the kind. The average IQ score of men, and the proportion of 'intelligent men' are statistically completely different things, even if you define intelligence purely in terms of IQ. If you are at all numerate, 10 seconds thought should suffice to convince you of this. For instance, there could be a small minority of men who have very high IQs, around 150, and the rest could all be around 90. Most women could have IQs around 120. Then if you define 'intelligent' as IQ>110, there might be many more intelligent women than intelligent men, even though men have a higher average IQ.
(Incidentally, this example isn't too far from a massive exaggeration of what I think is actually the case)
As usual, when such tests appear, someone without even basic knowledge of statistics tries to read into them something which isn't there in the first place
i hate them because they make it harder to grip the mouse properly and move it without pressing them.
Surely either "1/1,333", or "one 1,333rd"?
What stops people pirating the genuine version?
If the domain name doesn't have any more value to you than it does as a contentless site, visited only by people who mistype addresses, guess at addresses, (ie just type www.computers.com looking for somewh to buy a computer) or follow links to spam sites from easily-fooled search engines, and then click on ad links like monkeys, why should you buy it anyway?
"We have recieved a request to transfer $x to account number Y in Nigeria. If you did not request this please click here to connect to our fraud prevention dept., and confirm your account details and passwords..."
IIRC, a GHz is 10^9 cycles/sec, not 10^10.
I don't see why Apple would leak the software on purpose like some claim
Some (most?) people don't use pirated software, and so you still get their money, whereas if you gave it away, no-one would pay. And a lot of people who use warez wouldn't pay for software anyway. Instead of them stealing somebody else's, they steal yours, and you increase the visibility of your product.
It still exists, but now it's called DRM.
A 20 yr old man and a 17 yr old girl, FYI.
...killed Mozilla. Am I illiterate, or are they?